Philadelphia: Anti-slavery Society of the City and County of Philadelphia; printed by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. Single quarto issue (29cm x 23cm; ca. 11-1/2" x 9-1/4"). Bifolium (4pp), pages numbered [9]-12. Issued monthly. Old horizontal fold at center (as issued?); small loss at upper margin (away from printed area), brief..... More

Paris: L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904. First Edition. Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [16]pp; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to text edges; contents clean, complete, Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist..... More

Santa Barbara: Center for Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1972. First Edition. Newsletter produced by UC Santa Barbara's Center for Black Studies, detailing community and campus events, minority recruitment at UC Davis Law School, the Afro-American Conference, a tutoring program for black students in Santa Barbara, a lengthy profile of..... More

[New York: S.i.], 1968. First Edition. Bifolium (38cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 4pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, else a fresh, Fine copy. Memorial issue of The Worker, a weekend paper circulated between 1958-1968 after The Daily Worker ceased operations. Released in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, this..... More

Silver Spring, MD: Barry Alpert, 1972-1975. First Editions. Eight quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed and offset-printed sheets, alternately saddle-stiched, stapled, and prefectbound into decorative card wrappers. This set is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his penciled name appearing on the contents leaf of..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866-68. Five large octavo volumes (26cm). Publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spines; 728+802+828+828,42 [includes extra Christmas number]+828pp. Unbroken, well-preserved run; occasional toning or edgewear to text; easily Very Good overall. The first five volumes (of an eventual eight) of this substantial post-Civil War literary..... More

New Westminster, B.C. Solidarity Press, n.d., ca. 1969. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); original blue pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp.; illus., mimeographed text printed on blue, white, and yellow stock. About Fine. Presumably not the first issue of this anarchist periodical, though no edition is stated. Includes contributions by George Metesky, J...... More

Detroit: Robert Reitzel, 1895-1897. Late group of issues of this prominent German-American radical literary journal. Der arme Teufel was published weekly for 14 years by Robert Reitzel, a German-born American anarchist, poet, critic and translator. The first two volumes of the journal were mainly concerned with the freethought movement, primarily..... More

New York: V.L. Richman, 1963. Six representative issues, including the scarce inaugural number, of this individualist anarchist semi-monthly, which ran to a total of 23 issues, ceasing publication in 1965. An eccentric and ephemeral publication, described on the mast-head thus: "An independent and assertedly individual journal of commentary news and..... More

New York: John Müller, 1887. First Edition. Representative run of an important and extremely uncommon periodical, edited and almost entirely written by the German emigré communist-anarchist Johann Most. Most (1846-1906), by trade a bookbinder, emigrated to New York in 1882. A follower of Bakunin, Most quickly established himself as the..... More

New York: Margaret Anderson, 1922. First Edition. Small quarto (24.75cm); original printed card wrappers; [1]-63,[1]pp, with 18pp of inserted halftone plates. Wrappers toned, edgeworn, and creased, with a few tiny stains and some bleed-through onto front cover from oxidized staples; a few pages roughly opened, text edges foxed, encroaching into..... More

Chicago: Margaret C. Anderson, 1916. First Edition. Contents include poetry and short works by Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Buehrmann, Sherwood Anderson, Arthur Davidson Ficke, Ezra Pound, Alexander S. Kaun, Margaret Anderson, Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne, William Saphier, Charles Zwaska, Lupo de Braila, and Allan Ross Macdougall. Slim octavo (25cm); original taupe wrappers..... More

New York: Dial Publishing Company, 1921. Three octavo issues in original printed wrappers; issues variously paged but Anderson's contribution appearing on pp.1,153,and 325 respectively. All lthree issues Very Good in original thick paper wrappers; yapp edges occasionally ragged; small loss to paper on backstrip of September issue; else just mild..... More